this case takes place in the south of Wales on the 6th of November 2014 located in the valley of South Wales sat the sir ho AMS Hotel it offered a modest Retreat comprising of nine rooms these accommodations included five double rooms three singles and a family room but in the recent years the hotel had taken on an additional role in the community the council had purposed it as a facility for temporary accommodation especially for those released from prison or facing homelessness and it's here where 34-year-old Matthew Williams was living Matthew was the eldest of Four
Brothers his early years were mared by Family disruptions including his parents divorce when he was just 10 and by the age of 11 he was smoking cannabis by 13 Matthew had been expelled from school due to his involvement in physical altercations and by 15 he had abandoned the formal education system entirely and dropped out of school completely despite several attempts to seek help for his escalating substance issues as a teenager Matthew found it nearly impossible to control his habit this struggle paved the way for a prolific Life Of Crime resulting in his first custodial sentence
in a young offender's Institute at the age of 15 over the years Matthew's criminal record accumulated tallying 26 convictions for a staggering total of 78 offenses his offenses range from assaulting and wounding with intent to drug and weapons related charges in April of 1997 Matthew had been referred to a mental health service following charges of burglary and attempted theft but his admission into this unit was brief as he violated the unit's drug-free policy by using illegal substances only 2 and a half hours into his admission despite this new law Matthew's criminal activities and substance use
continue to dominate his life resulting in numerous stints in and out of jail in 2004 Matthew received a diagnosis of schizophrenia a mental health condition that would later be disputed by mental health professionals he was subsequently admitted to a psychiatric unit under the mental health act however this period of care came to an end in February of 2005 when Matthew was sentenced to 5 years in prison for burglary theft and wounding offenses further burglary offenses led to another prison term in 2009 during his latest days in prison Matthew was prescribed medication to address his mental
health issues which included hearing voices experiencing hallucinations and extreme paranoia these issues were only exacerbated by his substance abuse unfortunately Matthew did not consistently adhere to his prescription medication regime and often refused treatment he cited various reasons for his non-compliance including side effects and doubts that the medication was effective in 2014 his prescription was ultimately terminated after a lack of reported symptoms and according to professionals he was functioning well remarkably he even managed to secure a job as a prison Barber displaying a pleasant and polite demeanor in the runup to his release upon completing his
27-month sentence Matthew was released from prison without the usual statutory need for supervision without medication and without a referral to the Community Mental Health Team his release was conditional upon his commitment to contact his general practitioner should any mental health conditions arise when he was released he was offered voluntary support for substance misuse employment and housing but Matthew declined citing his awareness of the police and probation over the years it's at this point that Matthew was granted a room at the sir ho Arms Hotel but shortly after arriving he began to struggle with his mental
well-being his mother Sally Anne Williams would later assert that her son had been experiencing hallucinations including disturbing visualizations of Faces in everyday objects he claimed that a can of Coca-Cola had turned into a face these signs of mental distress painted a grim picture of the state of his psyche in the days before a gruesome attack on a night out in October Matthew met a 22-year-old woman named Caris yam Caris worked as a saleswoman at a clothing store called Next and was described as an outgoing person those who knew her described her as a funloving young
woman full of life Caris had been a student at Oakdale comprehensive school and was studying Health and Social Care at cros Key's college but Caris wasn't without her own set of struggles a former boyfriend named Matthew Hyman had been arrested after she broke up with him in October of the previous Year hon had tried to take his own life after the breakup by setting his house on fire he had lit up his bathroom and turned on the gas cooker it was a miracle that his house didn't explode he eventually admitted to Asen and was imprisoned
for 3 and a half years after meeting on a night out Caris and Matthew began talking and exchange Ed a number of text messages one of car's ex-boyfriend had been in prison with Matthew it's reported that he had advised her to stay away from Matthew indicating that he may have had concerns about the potential danger he paused on the evening of the 6th of November 2014 Caris met up with Matthew in the Sira Arms Hotel she went up into his room and it would be the last time she was ever seen alive Mandy miles the
the proprietor of the hotel dialed 999 after hearing screams coming from Matthew's room she opened the door of his room to find Matthew stubbing kris's body with a screwdriver and eating her face she shouted to him what are you doing are you eating her she went on to say that there was a large amount of blood and compared the scene to her horror movie Matthew briefly stopped and looked up at her with blood dripping from his face and a crazed vacant look in his eyes after staring at Mandy for a moment he went straight back
down to Caris Mandy immediately called the Emergency Services again to tell the police that she believed it was a cannibal attack she shouted down the phone he's shoving her screwdriver in her face he's chewing her face Matthew was covered in blood it was around 1:40 a.m. when the police arrived at the hotel they tried to talk to Matthew ordering him to stop but when he failed to respond to their request to move away from her body officers were left with no choice but to tease him Matthew was swiftly arrested and placed in handcuffs he tried
to get up again but officers tased him another three more times in the space of 20 seconds shortly after Matthew became unresponsive and died this hostile for homeless people and some ex offenders is now a crime scene Caris yam was a young woman with her whole life ahead of her but the shop assistant who lived locally was killed in the most horrifying way described as an act of cannibalism she had met 34-year-old Fitness fanatic Matthew Williams through friends he was a man with a violent past responding to reports of a disturbance a single female police
officer was the first to arrive here in the early hours of yesterday morning what she saw was traumatic along with fellow officers who attended the scene she's been offered counseling Matthew Williams had been living in this hosle after being released from prison a few months ago he'd served almost half of a 5-year sentence after being convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend tonight questions are being asked about why a man with such a violent past was living in this residential Community it was later determined that kris's cause of death was sharp force trauma to the head
and neck she died as a result of external blood loss and internal bleeding home office pathologist Richard Jones said he carried out the postmortem on kris's body and found 24 separate areas of injury which included at least 89 separate injuries that he could count which included blunt force trauma biting and cutting he said there were injuries to the eyes including the removal of the left eye nose ears and mouth with the injuries to the mouth being the most serious despite the bite marks and a large amount of blood around Matthew's face the coroner claimed that
Matthew didn't actually consume any of the flesh despite this the attack was described as cannibalistic those who witnessed the attack would leter say that Matthew appeared to be possessed and that any attempts of reaching him were futile authorities believe that he was in the middle of a schizophrenic episode made worse by the cocktail of substances and binge drinking in the days prior to the attack in the aftermath of the horrific murder an inquest into the event surrounding the tragic incident was held to determine whether or not the police were at fault for the death of
Matthew Matthew's mental health struggles and his interactions with mental health services as well as his criminal history would disgust the inqu Quest also delved into the events leading up to the Fateful Encounter between him and Caris it was ultimately found that Matthew Williams met his end as a consequence of a sudden unanticipated fatality due to the combined effects of substance use and resistance to restraint kris's family and her mother have said that the death of Caris is unbearable and described her as a kind and caring person that could always see the best in people Matthew's
mother Sally and Williams said her son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia after claiming he was a tree and saying that his food was poisoned she said that after his release there was no mental health support whatsoever he told her that he had been released without any medication she added that Matthew had complained that the voices were back in the days before The Killing
